What I find extremely hilarious right now is how Sweden can’t accept that people aren’t focusing on them. How Finland isn’t just crying in the shadow of Sweden. How Finland is celebrating Käärijä even if he didn’t bring the trophy home. They don’t want to accept why we are celebrating. Swedish media is trashing Finland right now harshly and so does Swedes in media. Hell, even Swedish ice hockey coach made some stupid comments to Finnish ice hockey team.
But why are Finns celebrating like we won?
We are celebrating because for the first time in ages THE WHOLE WORLD sees us as our own and not the shadow of Sweden. Käärijä made the world acknowledge us! Point us on the map! And that’s something that rarely happens.
Sweden is acting like the bitter big brother who doesn’t accept that someone is paying attention to little brother Finland instead of them.
And that’s beautiful.
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One day, about a month ago, I went to my usual grocery store to do some shopping. Thinking, I will buy some Myllyn Paras Makaroni, cause we're out of it and it's the default macaroni that everyone keeps stocked in their pantry. I reach the pasta aisle and am greeted by empty shelves. What? Is there another pandemic that I'm unaware of? Is it the war in Ukraine? No. Turns out that the one machine that churns the macaroni for the whole Finland is broken. And that's how the Finns faced a great macaroni shortage in the summer of 2023.
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okay but l*reen winning aside because that's false and i don't belive in that: it's so insane that a song IN FINNISH got SECOND PLACE and im absolutely crying about that and the entire country is so so SO proud of our funky green man 💚 he won everyone's hearts and that's the most important thing
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it's crazy, it's party, some other people's relevant lyrics from the eurovision season are coming along for the ride
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I will never get the sound of that crowd screaming his name out of my head
Fuck it up, king
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“1 ticket for Oppenheimer please”
“1 ticket for Barbie please”
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Juulia Turkkila & Matthias Versluis
2023 Grand Prix Espoo - Rhythm Dance
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Finland managed to win the televote, get 4th with the juries and get 2nd overall with an industrial metal-schlager rap song in Finnish and you know what? That’s worth something. And that matters to me the most. I don’t think we will ever forget Cha Cha Cha and Käärijä and his lime green bolero and his Rally English and his fun mannerisms
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WARNING: If you ever visit Finland, and you like chocolate, do NOT - I repeat, do NOT try the Geisha chocolate bars, from Fazer.
They are so good that when you've had one, you'll want another, and another, and another...
And definitely don't get the box with the small chocolates, because you will have emptied the box in no time.
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I had "homosexual activity in the green room" on my eurovision bingo card so I win
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Does anyone remember that one cosplay group based in Sweden (I think?) from ye olde faradays of Hetalia fandom that made a series called the Nordics on YouTube that depicted like the history of the Nordics where every character spoke their respective languages even when in conversation with each other
It was the shit and I used to watch it religiously when I was in middle and high school. It was like unusually high production too like they had different environments like snowy forests and old castles that I think were actually local tourist spots and museums they filmed in, also real horses too it was so good
They also cosplayed Black Butler but when I looked for the series again a few years back all the videos were gone and I think they might’ve been deleted :( I was so bummed out those were my favorite cosplay videos ever in any fandom
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Shitty phone picture but Aurora Borealis on my evening walk !!!
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